This has been compassion month! Four weeks of wind, rain, and the promise of more. Seems like every time the butterfly spreads its wings, another hurricane springs up near the Azores. “Worse than ever before,” the WeatherPeople say as their caps blow away.

Best of all, compassion sounds like God, explaining that He understands this is awful, but that He will care for you through it all. It doesn’t matter if its name is Bonnie, Charley, Frances, Ivan, or Norma-Jean, He is bigger than the storm. No matter what the enemy throws at you, He deflects the worst and offers His peace.

Compassion? It sounds like a co-worker reaching out a hand and saying, “This is really stressing us, isn’t it! Sometimes I feel like I’m going to break!! Could we pray together?
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